Future proofing on debian stretch (testing) and ubuntu 16.04. (latest long term release).anyone notice Linuxsampler's "adding instrument from directory" on jsampler is broken under those releases?Error message "Updating database instruments: Unknown DB instruments: /"I've compiled linuxsampler and friends from 4 different svn's on debian jessie and ubuntu 14.04, both older long term releases.jsampler scans my large .gig library (a forever process) which i can then easily recall, edit in live-mode through gigedit then re-save.No problems and we keep it moving. Not so the case on debian stretch (testing) and ubuntu 16.04. (latest long term release).

Switching to QSampler would not help you in this case. LinuxSampler's instruments DB feature was never added to QSampler. Everybody on this project had its own priorities on which features to work on, so ...

Anyway, I assume that it is just a minor distribution related issue. So it should not be hard to fix it. I guess the issue is already on LinuxSampler's side, not on JSampler's side. Both JSampler as well as QSampler communicate with LinuxSampler by using a human readable text based network protocol which we called "LSCP". You can also try to send the respective Instruments DB LSCP commands manually by yourself, either by using our command line application lscp or by the old way by using telnet: